My speaker installation

[BooBoo]

This weekend I decided to do the installation of my MB Quart speakers. The fronts are Reference series and the rears are 3-way Discus. They are powered by my Alpine head unit rather than a 4-way amp because I wanted to keep this simple, plus the Alpine can easily drive these.

Also, I wanted to have an invisible installation so we had to keep the stock grilles. The result is a sound that blows everybody away.

Stock fronts (rivets!!!):


Using mounting studs:


6.5s mounted using modified adapters:


Rears equally rubbish:


Rear 6x9 mounted:


No clearance issues:

[sb_beetle]

How does it sound?

[BooBoo]

Thank you.

I love the sounds of the MB Quart speakers. These were taken from our mk3 VR6 and transplanted into this car. There is a custom sub box that I showed in my introduction thread. Add it together and the sounds are crystal clear and powerful.

The Ai-Net cable came in recently so that got installed today, too. Now I've got Philips Opus rocking the Bug.

[Wiemwagon]

Did you reuse the stock speaker mount/adapter and bolt it all together? I think that is what I see there... I called a few install shops, nobody has the mounts in stock.

Fronts are 6.5s, rears 6x9s... any second thoughts about this? I was thinking of doing transplant soon, looks like I'll have to raid the hardware store. Does the vibration loosen anything?
-Thanks in advance

[notfastenuff]

Originally Posted by Wiemwagon

Did you reuse the stock speaker mount/adapter and bolt it all together? I think that is what I see there... I called a few install shops, nobody has the mounts in stock.

Fronts are 6.5s, rears 6x9s... any second thoughts about this? I was thinking of doing transplant soon, looks like I'll have to raid the hardware store. Does the vibration loosen anything?
-Thanks in advance

Actually, you've got 6.5"s all the way around. You can do a bit of "custom" work to fit 6x9s in the back. I did the same thing with ours with Booboo's advice. I had to do some trimming though. The baskets on my Fosgates were too big, but no big deal.

On the fronts, I didn't have to reuse the frame on mine. I had plenty of room, because my 6.5"s weren't that deep. I can't compare what ours sounded like before, but it sounds great now. (all 4 speakers were dead when we bought it) Loved riding around listening to the a pillar tweets. That rocked! lolx